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Specialty coffee, roasted in-house in Kota Kinabalu. Four nests across Labuan and Sabah, built on six years of doing small things properly — every single day.

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Nests

4.9★

GrabFood Rating

100k+

Caffe Lattes Poured

100%

In-House Roasted

The Signatures

The short list we would stake the brand on.

Classics done properly, a modern Spanish latte, and a matcha range our customers cannot leave alone. Six drinks — and every one of them starts with beans we roast ourselves.

Classic

Caffe Latte

The drink that built the colony — over 100,000 cups poured. Espresso and steamed milk, in the balance we have been chasing since day one.

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All-Time Best Seller
Modern

Spanish Latte

Espresso, condensed milk and steamed milk. Sweet, rich, and the order our regulars place without ever opening the menu.

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Everyday
Matcha

Matcha Latte

Matcha, whisked to order. Nine variations on the menu — and on Tuesdays, it is buy-one-free-one all day.

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Most Loved by Gen Z
Specialty

Mont Blanc 3.0

The third iteration of our house original — iced, layered, and the one people order because they saw it on someone else's table.

Iced
House Signature
Matcha

Strawberry Matcha Latte

Strawberry and matcha, layered so you can stir it yourself. Iced, bright, and the reason our matcha numbers jump every Tuesday.

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Gen Z Favourite
Classic

Flat White

Hot only, and rightly so. A double shot under velvet-steamed milk — smaller, stronger, and the purist's order.

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Hot Selling

Full menu — including frappes, refreshers, non-coffee, pastries and local food — is available in-store and on our delivery partners.

The Roastery

We roast our own. Right here.

Most coffee brands buy their beans roasted. We do not. Every bean that reaches your cup is roasted in-house at our Imago, Kota Kinabalu nest — then rested, dialled in and poured by baristas trained under a licensed Q Grader.

01

Green Bean

Sourced for balance, not for price. We buy green, we taste before we commit, and we reject plenty.

02

Roast

Roasted in-house at Imago KK, in small batches. Our house profile — dark and chocolatey — sits beside a lighter, fruitier option.

03

Rest & Dial

Beans rest before they are ground. Every batch is re-calibrated on the grinder so the recipe holds from morning to close.

04

Cup

Checked on the palate, not just the timer. Acidity, sweetness, bitterness — balanced, the way our founder insists it should be.

“Balance is always beautiful. Always create an idea with balance, a priority.”
The creed of the colony
Led By
Vincent Goh
Head of Barista, Gohson Group
“The Soul Behind the Espresso Machine”
Licensed Q Grader
SCA Q-114322
Wholesale & OEM

We roast for other cafés, too.

Our roastery does not only supply the colony. We sell roasted beans wholesale, and we develop and roast OEM recipes for cafés outside Gohson — your brand on the bag, our roast inside it.

01

Roasted Beans

House blends and single origins, roasted in-house at our Imago, Kota Kinabalu roastery and supplied on a recurring schedule — whole bean, or ground to your equipment.

  • House dark roast — chocolatey, built to carry milk
  • Lighter, fruitier profile for filter and black coffee
  • Roasted in small batches, recipe locked batch to batch
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02

OEM Roasting & Recipe

We develop a signature blend to your taste profile and roast it under your own label. The recipe is documented and repeatable, so every delivery tastes like the last one.

  • Recipe development with our head of barista
  • Roasted and packed under your brand
  • Consistent result across every order
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01Enquire

Tell us your volume, your equipment and the cup you are trying to pour.

02Sample & Profile

We roast a trial batch and dial the profile in with you until it is right.

03Recurring Supply

Once locked, we supply on a schedule — same recipe, same result, every delivery.

Why Gohson

Premium, without the premium tax.

We sit deliberately between the value chains and the global giants — specialty quality, genuine warmth, and a price that respects your morning routine.

In-House Roastery

Green beans to finished cup under one roof. Nothing leaves our control between roast and pour.

Q Grader Led

Our head of barista holds the SCA Q Grader licence — a credential held by very few coffee companies in the country.

Quality Ingredients

Every lot is cupped before we commit, and plenty are turned away. We buy green beans on taste, never on price.

Colony Service

Our teams are trained, checked and recognised — because “friendly staff” is the thing our customers mention most.

Our Nests

Four nests. Two islands.

Find us in Labuan and Kota Kinabalu. Every nest pours from the same roasted-in-house beans — so the cup tastes the same wherever you sit down.

Gohson Retail

Jalan Bunga Anggerik · Labuan
The Birthplace
Ground Floor, U0371 & U0372, Jalan Bunga Anggerik,
87000 W.P. Labuan, Malaysia.
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Gohson Coffee

Financial Park · Labuan
Flagship Café
Unit D001 & D001(A), 1st Floor Podium Level,
Financial Park Complex Labuan, Jalan Merdeka,
87000 W.P. Labuan, Malaysia.
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Gohson Coffee & Roastery

Imago · Kota Kinabalu
Home of the Roast
No. G 90, Ground Floor, Imago, Phase 2,
Off Coastal Highway, 88100 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
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Gohson Coffee

Labuan Times Square · Labuan
Town Café
Unit No. 1-5, Level 1, Shoplot,
Labuan Times Square,
87000 W.P. Labuan, Malaysia.
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Coming Soon

Three more nests are on the way. Two in Sabah, one in Labuan.

Locations and opening dates will be announced once confirmed. Follow us for updates.

Our Story

We are not a company with a culture. We are a colony with a business.

In 2020 we opened a small convenience store on Jalan Bunga Anggerik in Labuan, with a coffee counter at the back. We did not set out to build an empire. We set out to serve people well, one cup at a time. That was the whole plan.

Six years later we roast our own beans, we hold credentials most coffee companies in this country do not, and our Caffe Latte alone has passed 100,000 cups. None of that was the goal — it was simply the result of doing small things properly, every single day, without exception.

Long before we had four nests, we had a story. Ants, it is said, learned to brew coffee. They found the roasted bean, built their nest around it, and organised themselves — each ant carrying a role, each role serving the whole. That is not a metaphor we borrowed for a poster. It is how we actually run.

The Five Laws of the Colony
01

Communicate like pheromones — fast, clear, through the whole colony.

02

Carry more than your weight when needed.

03

Never abandon the colony mid-rush.

04

Specialise, but stay flexible.

05

Protect the Queen's standards — not negotiable, not ever.

From the Founder

Six years in, and still holding the same standard.

When we opened our first store in 2020 — a small convenience store on Jalan Bunga Anggerik with a coffee counter at the back — we had one plan: to serve people well, one cup at a time. We did not set out to build an empire. We set out to earn your next visit.

Six years later, I want to tell you plainly where we stand, because confidence should be earned with facts rather than adjectives.

We now run two brands and five outlets across Labuan and Kota Kinabalu. Our Caffe Latte alone has passed 100,000 cups. We roast our own beans in-house in Kota Kinabalu, so the same cup tastes the same wherever you sit down. Our head of barista, Vincent Goh, holds the Specialty Coffee Association's Q Grader licence. And your reviews have placed our Imago outlet in the top 0.3% of cafés in Kota Kinabalu.

None of that was the goal. It was the result of doing small things properly, every day, without exception.

So here is what I can promise you. We will not grow by making the cup worse. Every new outlet we open has to meet the standard of the first one — not a cheaper version of it. And if a drink ever does not taste the way it should, I would rather you told us than quietly stopped coming. Your feedback is the only thing that keeps a standard honest.

And to those who have been with us since that first store — the regulars who order the same thing every morning — you are not a number to us. You are the reason we were able to grow at all, and you are the people we answer to first.

We are still growing, and we do not get everything right. When we get it wrong, we correct it and we learn. That is the standard we hold ourselves to — and it is the standard you should hold us to.

Thank you for six years — to those who have just found us, and to those who never left. We are not finished.

Dato' Sri Goh Sin Yap Founder & CEO, Gohson Holdings Sdn. Bhd.
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Your next cup is closer than you think.

Walk in and sit down, or have it brought to you. Whichever way you take your coffee, it is the same beans, the same recipe, the same standards.

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Four nests across Labuan and Kota Kinabalu. No booking, no queue app — just come in.

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Delivering from Financial Park Labuan, Gohson Retail and Imago KK. Rated 4.9 by our customers on Grab.

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Questions, feedback, or something you think we should fix? We genuinely read every message that reaches us.

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Careers

Nobody here is a dead end.

We are a colony, not a company with a culture. Our teams are trained properly, told the truth about how they are doing, and promoted from within — many of our leaders started on the floor.

We are hiring. If you want to work somewhere that takes the craft seriously, we would like to hear from you.

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